Papers finished...check.
Graduation completed...check.

Now back to the important stuff. I'll do a progress update just as soon as I figure out where I left off.

...So much for being done early on in the new year. Things are officially on hold until I get this 40+ pages of essays cleared out of the way.
Graduation can not come soon enough.

Whoa. I last updated this in July? I could have sworn I'd been around since then, but I guess not (so thanks for the nudge, or this could have gone on for another couple of weeks).

...*cough*


Anyway. Shading is about 70% finished, and since I'm done with exams and there are no more papers to write, I'm counting on having the chapter done around New Year's. I'll post the link when I get it set up - I don't think I'll be posting on the old website. Most likely I'll set up somewhere else.


And... that's it for now. :) See you in 2009.

(EDIT - December 30)
Computer troubles have pushed me back by a few days. To make a long and frustrating story short, I got a virus and had to restore my operating system. All my files are safe, but it took a while to get everything set up again.

Sorry for the long wait between updates - time sure flies when you're having fun, huh?

Give or take a few panels, the shading's about a third finished, maybe a bit more. I'll scan and post a few more preview snippets when I'm not so sleepy. (Why do I update this thing so late at night, anyway?)

EDIT: ( The promised snippets, in no particular order. )

2 pages shaded.

(Still have a bit of inking left to do, but I'll get to it when I get to it.)

Inking: 80-90ish% complete. I've stopped counting.

I've begun lettering/shading the inked pages. Had a brief moment of panic when my 5-year-old tablet seemed to have stopped working, but soon discovered it was only the pen. And I was able to acquire a replacement pen pretty quickly. So, all in all, things are going pretty well. I've got a picture I want to put up, but I'll do that in the morning.

Inking: About 70% complete.

Backgrounds and such make up most of the uncompleted 30%.
Icky things, backgrounds.

Inking: About 60% complete.

I had final exams between the last update and now, so hopefully I can be excused a little slackness in the inking progress, maybe?
I'll post another update soon.

Inking: About 50% complete. I'll post previews in the morning, when I'm not so sleepy.

EDIT: Okay, there are some unfinished and mostly sketchy bits of panels ( under this cut. )
You might notice that they are not computer-drawn, this time around. I did the pencilling with a real pencil, and the inking with real ink - brush and pen. The shading and lettering are still going to be done by computer, though.

It's going to be a little harder to keep track of the progress bar while I'm inking, as I don't do a whole page at once like I do when I'm pencilling. I'll just have to estimate. So... I estimate inking is about... 30% complete. I'll probably start scanning in some preview panels soon.

Also, I have some gimmickry for you. Someone in the Artists Alley at Animaritime this year had a display of these things called 'hangies', which were basically cutouts of anime characters drawn to look as if they were held up by the back of their coat/shirt. They were pretty cute.
( So, without further ado, here are some Whither hangies. )

Progress: 32/32 pages pencilled. Inking time!

Progress: 28/32 pages pencilled (yeah, 32, not 30. I mis-counted).

Chapter 1 progress report: 23/30 pencilled, 6/30 inked. Preview panels coming soon.